WASHINGTON (CNN) – President Barack Obama will start reading through extensive packets of information about potential Supreme Court nominees this weekend, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Friday.
The information includes details of their professional careers, records and experience. Obama will spend a “significant” portion of his weekend doing this, Earnest added.
He said the packets were prepared by White House lawyers.
Earnest said Obama does not yet have a shortlist of candidates. He would not specify how many nominees were being reviewed, but he did say it was more than two and that the list is not complete.
In the past day, Obama spoke by phone with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Democratic Leader Harry Reid, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and the leading Democrat on the Judiciary panel, Sen. Patrick Leahy, to discuss the court nomination process.
“The President will consult a wide variety of individuals with a wide variety of perspectives as he contemplates his nominee to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court,” Earnest said.
